there are afghan refugees and then there are afghan assets
for instance, the helmand police chief we pulled out isn’t going to be dragging anyone into bushes. But he’s probably going to be really good for intel purposes like looking at those communities where the bush draggers hang out.
If we are bringing out English speakers who worked with us, they obviously are not stupid. They are ahead of most of our new neighbors from south of the border in the English-speaking department.